Type: url
Original: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control
Status: generated
Language: en
Summary
Anthropic describes how a more than tenfold rise in merged code changes, driven by Claude writing most of its code, made git-based source control its biggest development bottleneck, and how a seven-person team built Scion — an in-house, server-centric version control system designed on the assumption that clients (mostly agents and CI jobs) are always online — and migrated its monorepo to it in five months. The post sets out Scion’s design principles and architecture and the lessons the team drew, including that engineers’ role shifted toward design judgment and telling Claude “no”, and argues that some of these ideas could be applied to git servers without abandoning git’s model.